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Vapers Digest 10th August

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Monday’s News at a glance:

INTERNAL MEMORANDUM ~ The Corruption Was Never the Real Scandal ~ When “Hold the Course” Means Ignoring Where the Course Has Taken Us ~ Benefits of Smoking Cessation Far Outweigh Risks of E-Cigarettes ~ Nicotine Consumption Prevalence by Product Category and Age ~ Responses to FDA Tobacco Regulatory Actions ~ Inishowned: Irish Nicotine Licence Hurting Small Town Retailers ~ Exclusive vaping rises 18.8% a year as US adults move away from smoking, study shows ~ The Real Vaping Scandal Isn’t What You Think ~ Vape tax could rise in Budget after raising €22m in nine months ~ Australia Bans Every Legal Nicotine Pouch as Illicit Market Hits 80% ~  As Australia Insists on Making Vaping Harder Than Smoking—Organised Crime Keeps Filling the Gap ~ Costa Rica’s New Vape Rules Were Supposed to Start Today. They Didn’t. ~ Lumped In | Nicotine-Free Vapes, Guilt by Association? | RegWatch ~ Illicit Products Proliferate as FDA Reviews Grind On

Three From Alan Gor

INTERNAL MEMORANDUM

Please remember:

Science is not settled by repetition, institutional authority or communications strategy.

Uncertainty should be acknowledged whether the evidence supports existing policy or reform.

Falling legal sales do not necessarily prove falling consumption when consumers can move to illicit products.

Nicotine use, tobacco use and smoking are not interchangeable measures.

The Corruption Was Never the Real Scandal

When most people read the latest investigation into the collapse of the Australian Border Force’s secret intelligence unit, they will probably focus on one individual. They will read about allegations of corruption, classified intelligence reports, covert operations, failed oversight and an officer accused of abusing one of the most sensitive positions inside Australia’s border security apparatus. Those allegations are undoubtedly serious and deserve to be investigated thoroughly. But I believe they are distracting us from a much bigger story.

When “Hold the Course” Means Ignoring Where the Course Has Taken Us

There is a sentence near the end of the ABC investigation into Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis that, for me, captures the central problem with the Australian debate. Professor Becky Freeman says, “What we’re doing is working. We need to hold the course.” But after reading the ABC’s own account of what is happening in Australia, I am left with a very different question: what exactly are we holding the course towards?

Benefits of Smoking Cessation Far Outweigh Risks of E-Cigarettes

Deborah Kotz, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Clinicians should include nicotine-containing e-cigarettes alongside other evidence-based options for quitting cigarette smoking in conversations with adult patients, according to a new Special Communication  published July 30 in JAMA that is co-authored by a University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) faculty member. The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT ) convened the group of 24 tobacco treatment and addiction experts to review the latest literature and make recommendations directed at health care practitioners.

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Nicotine Consumption Prevalence by Product Category and Age

Huub Savelkouls, Nicotine Charts

Following my previous post, I received a question from a reader expressing surprise about the high rate of exclusive use for heated tobacco products (HTPs) used in my calculations (81%).

This metric is of course very relevant from a policy perspective. The degree to which population level harm can be reduced with modern nicotine products depends not only on the physical characteristics of these new products (e.g. how much a new product reduces exposure to toxicants in comparison to cigarettes).

Responses to FDA Tobacco Regulatory Actions

Skip Murray, Skip’s Corner – Let’s Talk!

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA), signed into law in 2009, gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products. Since then, organizations and individuals have responded to FDA tobacco regulatory actions through public comments, testimony, statements, letters, litigation, and other actions. This project tracks those responses in two ways: individual series entries follow the record of a specific organization or person over time, while product- and action-specific collections document responses to particular FDA decisions or regulatory events. Entries may be updated as new FDA actions and responses occur.

A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…

Boost for ban challenge

Tobacco Reporter

The Swedish government has chosen not to provide written observations to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in relation to a case being brought to overturn the EU ban on the sale of snus outside Sweden, according to a press note issued on Monday jointly by the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO) and the NNA Sweden.

Anti-Tobacco Groups 

Willing to Throw Away the Lives of Smokers to Promote Radical Ideology
Michael Siegel – The Rest of the Story

For months, I have been arguing that the major anti-tobacco groups in the United States have been waging a war against electronic cigarettes that is motivated not by a pure concern for the public’s health, but by an ideological opposition to the idea that anyone could get pleasure from nicotine in whatever form — even if they are improving their health and saving their life.

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